Guadeloupe is some island. It is bigger than most of your Caribbean islands and holds 330,000 people. It also has three of four big cities. The biggest of these is Pointa A Pitre. That is a really big city. Not as big as Denver but much bigger than Boulder. Since there is so many people on the island there are a lot of freighters coming into port. They seem to be able to unload all of them in a day. Because the port seems to close down around 9:00 pm.
We have done a ton of stuff since we’ve been in Guadelope. We we’re in Deshais and we hiked up the creek, They call it a river. It was only about 1.5 miles but we were hiking over boulders and stuff like that. It really wiped me out. It even wiped out the dogs.
Then we went down to pigeon island. The weather said it was only supposed to be blowing 20 knots. But we experienced winds of 40 knots off and on all the way down there. Then we got there and the wind didn’t let up all night. It was still gusting at 40 knots and maybe more in really short bursts. I didn’t get much sleep that night. We were on a mooring ball but with the wind that high I didn’t trust everything would be well. Even though I doubled the ropes attached to the mooring ball and put roles around the headsail. That was the windiest day we have spent down here all year. And we were on the leeside of some pretty big mountains.
Later I found out friends of ours slipped anchor and got blown out to sea just a couple hundred yards from where we were
I will post more of Guadelope later, but I'm going to split it up.
On the river walk.
Pigeon island
Where we mored
What an adventure you are having:-) beautiful pictures! Keep 'em coming! Jo
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